After breaking records during its second national tour stop in Denver, “The Books of Mormon” the Tony-winning, blasphemously joyous musical — or is that joyously blasphemous musical? — has fresh dates for 2015, Denver Center Attractions announced Tuesday.

Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone’s irreverent wonder about two young men from the Church of Jesus of Latter-day Saints who travel to Uganda for their mission is slated for the Ellie Caulkins Opera House Aug. 11 through Sept. 13.

Jared Gertner as Elder Cunningham in “The Book of Mormon.” The show is set to say “Hello!” once again to local audiences, starting Oct. 22. Photo Joan Marcus, provided by Denver Center Attractions

When “The Book of Mormon” launched its national tour in Denver in August, Trey Parker, Matt Stone and Robert Lopez’s Tony-winning musical was everything it was cracked to be. Naughty. Optimistic. Fun. Read more…

Most of the creative players are in Denver now for the sold-out launch of the first national tour of “The Book of Mormon,” which begins previews Aug. 14 and runs through Sept. 2.

While the Ellie Caulkins Opera House reverberates with rehearsals of the irreverent yet celebratory musical, created by Trey Parker, Matt Stone and Robert Lopez, the Tony winner’s producers and Denver Center Attractions announced a ticket lottery where each night hopefuls can enter a drawing for one or two $25 tickets.

“The Book of Mormon” is set to return to Denver October 2013, said the co-creators of the Tony Award-amassing musical about two young Mormons sent on a mission to Africa. Trey Parker and Matt Stone — both Colorado natives — were standing in the lobby of the Ellie Calukins Opera House as music wafted from a rehearsal of the show.Next week, Denver launches the musical’s first national tour.

In January, tickets sold out in record time for the show’s brief engagement at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House (Aug. 14-Sept. 2).

Film & theater critic Lisa Kennedy likes to watch -- a lot. She also has a fondness for no-man’s lands, contested territories and Venn Diagrams. She believes the best place to live is usually on the border between two vibrant neighborhoods. Where better to apply this penchant for overlap and divergence than covering film and theater – two arts that owe so much to each other yet offer radically idiosyncratic pleasures? In another life, Kennedy was an Obie judge. In this one, she’s been a Pulitzer Prize judge in criticism, an Independent Spirit Award jurist and Colorado’s first member of the National Society of Film Critics.

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